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Spring is here!  In Southern California we don’t get the massive seasonal changes, but we still do get the longer, sunnier, warmer days.  Spring is the time when all of a sudden the air smells sweeter, the birds chirp louder, the colors burst brighter and people just seem to have bigger smiles on their faces.  One of those sweet smiles is always on my mother-in-law’s face as she tends to her beautiful garden.  Her garden is so special that there are always passing folks gazing dreamily into it.  (Once, one of those passer-byers happened to be national publisher of calendars and my mother-in-law enjoyed a brief bit of so-called fame.  If I had known my wife then, I would have killed for the opportunity to take the shot they published!)

Anyway, back to the Cosmos.  She’s the kind of daisy in the sense that it can grow practically anywhere and asks for little encouragement.   It doesn’t need a lot of preening and coaxing.  It just needs to be scattered somewhere where it gets exposure to some sunny days and a little water here and there.   Every year my mother-in-law scatters  the tiny Cosmos seeds on what used to be an empty plot of dirt near the curbside across from her garden.  And every year that curbside grows more and more rampant with the happy, simple, seemingly smiling faces of Cosmos.  Various shades of purple and white stand strong and tall.  They seem to be showing the world that complexity just isn’t all lit’s cracked up to be and that simple life can be sweet and beautiful.  The border my  mother-in-law’s garden like a prelude to a great novel in which all is joyous, good and well.